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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 5, 1961
Place of Birth
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Also Known As
- 珍娜·麥提爾
- جنت مکتیر
Janet McTeer
3.2 Popularity
Biography
Janet McTeer OBE (born 5 August 1961) is an English actress. She began her career training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before earning acclaim for playing diverse roles on stage and screen in both period pieces and modern dramas. She has received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award, an Olivier Award, a Golden Globe Award and nominations for two Academy Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2008, she was appointed as an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services in drama. McTeer made her professional stage debut in 1984 and was nominated for the 1986 Olivier Award for Best Newcomer for The Grace of Mary Traverse. She received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress and the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her A Doll's House performance in 1997. For her roles on Broadway, she received two other nominations for Mary Stuart in 2009 and Bernhardt/Hamlet in 2019. McTeer has also gained acclaim for her film roles, having received two Academy Award nominations, one for Best Actress in Tumbleweeds in 1999 and the other for Best Supporting Actress in Albert Nobbs in 2011. Other roles include Wuthering Heights (1992), Carrington (1995), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Songcatcher (2000), As You Like It (2006), The Divergent Series (2015–2016), and The Menu (2022). On television, she starred in the title role of Lynda La Plante's The Governor (1995–1996). She received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for portraying Clementine Churchill in the HBO film Into the Storm (2009). She is also known for her roles in Damages (2012), The White Queen (2013), The Honourable Woman (2014), Jessica Jones (2018), Sorry for Your Loss (2018–2019), and Ozark (2018–2020). Description above from the Wikipedia article Janet McTeer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
7.2
Walters
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
8.5
Kat McAllister
MobLand
2025
7.3
Hera
KAOS
2024
6.7
Narrator
Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator
2023
8.0
Helen
National Theatre Live: Phaedra
2023
7.2
Lillian
The Menu
2022
7.2
Marion
The Old Man
2022
5.0
Lucienne
Glimpse
2022
6.6
Self
A Farewell to Ozark
2022
7.9
Hubert Page / Self (archive footage)
Disclosure
2020
Credits
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
as Walters
2025
7.2
MobLand
as Kat McAllister
2025
8.5
KAOS
as Hera
2024
7.3
Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator
as Narrator
2023
6.7
National Theatre Live: Phaedra
as Helen
2023
8.0
The Menu
as Lillian
2022
7.2
The Old Man
as Marion
2022
7.2
Glimpse
as Lucienne
2022
5.0
A Farewell to Ozark
as Self
2022
6.6
Disclosure
as Hubert Page / Self (archive footage)
2020
7.9
Gangs of London
as Isabel Vaughn
2020
7.9
Sorry For Your Loss
as Amy
2018
6.9
Angelica
as Anne Montague
2017
4.7
Ozark
as Helen Pierce
2017
8.2
The Exception
as Princess Hermine 'Hermo' Reuss of Greiz
2017
6.9
Paint It Black
as Meredith
2016
6.0
Me Before You
as Camilla Traynor
2016
7.9
Allegiant
as Edith Prior
2016
6.1
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
as La Marquise de Merteuil
2016
7.0
Marvel's Jessica Jones
as Alisa Jones
2015
7.5
Fathers and Daughters
as Carolyn
2015
7.1
Insurgent
as Edith Prior
2015
6.4
Battle Creek
as Commander Guziewicz
2015
6.9
The Honourable Woman
as Julia Walsh
2014
7.3
Maleficent
as Narrator (voice)
2014
7.1
The White Queen
as Jacquetta of Luxembourg
2013
7.3
Love, Marilyn
as Self
2013
6.7
Hannah Arendt
as Mary McCarthy
2012
6.9
Parade's End
as Mrs. Satterthwaite
2012
6.6
The Woman in Black
as Mrs. Daily
2012
6.1
Albert Nobbs
as Hubert Page
2011
6.3
Island
as Phyllis
2011
5.4
Cat Run
as Helen Bingham
2011
5.3
Psychoville
2009
6.8
Into the Storm
as Clementine Churchill
2009
6.4
Hunter
as DS Amy Foster
2009
7.3
Sense and Sensibility
as Mrs. Dashwood
2008
7.6
Daphne
as Gertrude Lawrence
2007
6.0
🎬
The Making of 'Tideland'
as Self
2007
5.3
Five Days
as DS Amy Foster
2007
5.7
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
as Catherine Walker
2006
6.2
As You Like It
as Audrey
2006
5.7
Tideland
as Dell
2005
6.5
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Anne Protheroe
2004
7.7
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
5.5
The Intended
as Sarah Morris
2002
5.3
Songcatcher
as Professor Lily Penleric, PhD
2001
6.1
The King Is Alive
as Liz
2000
6.0
Waking the Dead
as Caroline Pierce
2000
6.1
Tumbleweeds
as Mary Jo Walker
1999
6.5
Velvet Goldmine
as Female Narrator (voice)
1998
6.9
Saint-Ex
as Genevieve de Ville-Franche
1996
3.0
Carrington
as Vanessa Bell
1995
6.2
The Governor
1995
0.0
Don't Leave Me This Way
as Loretta Lawson
1993
7.0
Dead Romantic
as Madeleine Severn
1993
0.0
Wuthering Heights
as Ellen Dean
1992
6.6
A Masculine Ending
as Loretta Lawson
1992
0.0
I Dreamt I Woke Up
as Mysterious Woman/Lady of the Lake/Journalist
1991
6.0
Prince
as Adult Claudie
1991
0.0
The Black Velvet Gown
as Riah Millican
1991
5.4
102 Boulevard Haussmann
as Céleste Albaret
1990
6.0
Sweet Nothing
as Caroline
1990
0.0
Portrait of a Marriage
as Vita Sackville-West
1990
6.1
Yellowbacks
as Dr Juliet Horwitz
1990
7.0
Precious Bane
as Prue Sarn
1989
6.0
Hawks
as Hazel
1988
5.8
The Play on One
as Dr Juliet Horwitz
1988
6.0
Miss Julie
as Miss Julie
1987
0.0
Half Moon Street
as Van Arkady's Secretary
1986
5.1
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Harry Potter
as Minerva McGonagall
N/A
0.0
🎬
Weekends at Bellevue
as Diane Wallace
N/A
0.0
🎬
The Artist
as Marian Henry
N/A
0.0